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Seth – La Morsure du Christ Review

Seth – La Morsure du Christ Review

By Holdeneye on May 11, 2021 in Reviews, Black Metal, 75 comments

“For the second year in a row, a return-to-form album from a well-established black metal entity has somehow found its way into my greasy clutches. 2020 saw me covering …and Oceans and their phenomenal Cosmic World Mother, a record that presented itself after a long hiatus as an amalgamation of the band’s experimentation and growth through the years, while simultaneously capturing the spirit and style of the band’s origins. Well, change the year to 2021 and the band name to Seth, and that last sentence still works for the most part.” Seth and taxes.

Thermohaline – Maelström Review

Thermohaline – Maelström Review

By Dear Hollow on March 25, 2021 in Reviews, Black Metal, Death Metal, Folk Metal, Industrial Metal, 26 comments

“Thanks to that one boozy pirate-themed power metal band whose name rhymes with “Sail Dorm,” it’s difficult to take oceanic themed albums seriously. There are plenty of bands that have torn it up, Ahab showcasing mammoth waves with their breed of crushing funeral doom, Isis displaying the uncaring expanse with shoegaze-y post-metal, and Firtan and Déluge offering some respective symphonic black and post-black to reflect he majesty of the oceans. Scrolling through my black metal collection and each album’s respective themes goes something like this: winter, winter, occult, winter, occult, occult, evil, winter, etc. Oceanic-themed black metal is few and far between, and you’d be hard-pressed to find the good stuff. Will Thermohaline kickstart a new trend or will it end up drowning in its own ambition?” The sea was angry that day, my fiends.

Northern Genocide – Genesis vol. 666 Review

Northern Genocide – Genesis vol. 666 Review

By GardensTale on September 7, 2019 in 2019, Finnish Metal, Industrial Metal, Inverse Records, Melodic Death Metal, Reviews, Industrial Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 33 comments

“Industrial metal hasn’t had a great run as of late. The few I have reviewed in my three-year tenure at AMG did not fare well. In fact, the only good industrial metal I have heard in that time was the new Rammstein earlier this year, meaning the underground has delivered exactly zilch. Of course, I may have simply missed a whopper, but fact remains that most bands touting the term seem to use it as an excuse to blow out the speakers with horrendous production and/or use it as an ersatz term for metalcore or nu-metal. Maybe the debut from upstarts Northern Genocide can make a difference.” The Devil’s factory.

Eversin – Armageddon Genesi Review

Eversin – Armageddon Genesi Review

By Treble Yell on July 8, 2018 in 2018, Death Metal, Hardcore, Italian Metal, My Kingdom Music, Reviews, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Hardcore, Thrash Metal, 46 comments

“When I think back to metal’s halcyon days the mid-2000’s is not a time period that gets conjured in my mind, but to Eversin that identity-starved period is their lighthouse, keeping them on an even keel through waters of overcooked angst, clumsy Photoshop filters and a major escalation in the loudness wars.” It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times….